A Year in Review, A.I.S.E.’s activities in 2023-24

A.I.S.E. represents a sector that brings essential products to market for cleanliness and hygiene in the home and in public spaces. As such, we contribute to Europe’s economy through employment, research and development, and innovative and sustainable cleaning and maintenance solutions that enable Europe’s businesses to function.
 
The elected and appointed EU leaders for 2024–2029 have a new mandate to implement the EU Green Deal through the legislative revisions and new proposals that they will take up. The top priorities for A.I.S.E.’s members today are the legislative trilogues for the revision of the Detergents Regulation and the Green Claims Directive. In addition, we are preparing for the evaluation of the Biocidal Products Regulation and anticipating the new chemicals industry package to simplify REACH. And we look forward to the European Council’s Strategic Agenda 2024–2029.
It is essential that the new leaders deliver a regulatory framework that fosters innovation and takes account of the administrative burden on Europe’s SMEs that run 85% of our sector’s manufacturing facilities. As the first downstream sector to sign the Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal, A.I.S.E. underlines the need for investment to ensure that European industry remains competitive on a global scale. 
 
A.I.S.E.’s new report outlines our very active engagement in the last 12–18 months to bring our valuable expertise to the policymakers in all three EU institutions. We will continue to engage with the legislators, meeting and greeting the new leaders, cooperating with the Council Presidency and the Member State authorities, and hosting our annual stakeholders’ Cleaning & Hygiene Forum in the European Parliament for the first time in December 2024. Our core business is to ensure availability of essential products and services that uphold our modern way of living, maintain our homes and businesses and protect our health through cleanliness and hygiene, in a safe and sustainable manner. This is our fundamental ‘raison d’être’ and we are open to engaging with the legislators on all issues that will shape our sector for the coming decades.